Maximilian Bosch
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Worktrees[1] are a feature of git which allow you to check out a ref in a different directory. While playing around with flakes I realized that git repositories in a worktree checkout break when trying to build a flake: ``` $ git worktree add ../nixpkgs-flakes nixpkgs-flakes $ cd ../nixpkgs-flakes $ nix build .#hello error: opening directory '/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs-flakes/.git/refs/heads': Not a directory ``` This issue has been fixed by determining with `git rev-parse --git-common-dir` where the actual `.git` directory is. Please note that this issue only exists on the `flakes` branch, fetching worktree checkouts with Nix master seems to work fine. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.